A catering company which supplies food to aged care facilities, private hospitals and food outlets across Melbourne is temporarily shut down after authorities draw a possible link between the death of a woman in her 80s and the company's kitchen.

The unemployment rate in Western Australia has reached its highest since 2002 and, despite a new promise of 150,000 more jobs, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry warns there will be more short-term pain before any long-term employment gains.

Despite the Territory's recent budget woes, Chief Minister Michael Gunner's Government will offer to act as guarantors for large-scale projects in the Top End to help drive investment in the region during a series of meetings starting on Thursday.

Thousands more properties could now be caught up in Australia's cladding crisis, as authorities issue an alert warning against the use of another nine types of the material, including cladding commonly used on single-storey suburban homes.

Injalak Arts — which had previously run at a profit selling screen-printed cloth, weavings and paintings — is facing a financial crisis, primarily because of cost over-runs on two major projects that it was trying to develop at the same time.

As banks pull back on new finance and tighten credit after the royal commission, households are being pushed into riskier forms of credit — leaving many struggling with financial problems and becoming trapped in a 'spiral of debt'.